Archive for October, 2009

• Joke Time

  Why did the computer programmer always confuse Halloween and Christmas?

  October 31st, 2009

• strcspn()

  Finds the first substring which contains only chars not in the list given and returns its length. You can specify a start position and max length.

  October 30th, 2009

• strspn()

  Finds the first substring which contains only the chars in the list given and returns its length. You can specify a start position and max length.

  October 29th, 2009

• strrpos()

  Find the position of the last occurrence of a substring.

  October 28th, 2009

• chr()

  Get the character represented by the given ASCII value.

  October 27th, 2009

• ord()

  Get the ASCII value of a character.

  October 26th, 2009

• ltrim()

  Returns to you a string with whitespace removed from the beginning of the string passed to it. You can also pass in a list of characters for it to remove instead.

  October 24th, 2009

• rtrim()

  Returns to you a string with whitespace removed from the end of the string passed to it. You can also pass in a list of characters for it to remove instead.

  October 23rd, 2009

• str_ireplace()

  Case-insensitive version of str_replace().

  October 22nd, 2009

• strtr()

  Translate characters or substrings of a string. Doesn’t “double translate” as it goes.

  October 21st, 2009